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Release Date: 1991

Cast: Mike Starr, Nicole Kidman, John Costelloe, Xander Berkeley, Bruce Willis, Frances Conroy, Dustin Hoffman, Stanley Tucci, Steven Hill, Moira Kelly, Steve Buscemi, Timothy Jerome ...MORE

Cast: Mike Starr, Nicole Kidman, John Costelloe, Xander Berkeley, Bruce Willis, Frances Conroy, Dustin Hoffman, Stanley Tucci, Steven Hill, Moira Kelly, Steve Buscemi, Timothy Jerome, Loren Dean, Billy Jaye ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Period piece, Coming of age, Film adaptation, Gangster, Crime Thriller

Billy Bathgate is a 1991 American crime film directed by Robert Benton, starring Loren Dean as the titular character and Dustin Hoffman as gangster Dutch Schultz. The film co-stars Nicole Kidman, Steven Hill, Steve Buscemi, and Bruce Willis. It is based on the novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow. The screenplay is by Tom Stoppard. Doctorow distanced himself from the film for the extensive manner in which it deviated from the book in style and content. Billy Behan is a poor 15-year-old kid in the 1930s Bronx. After the wealthy gangster Dutch Schultz takes him under his wing, Billy... MORE

Billy Bathgate is a 1991 American crime film directed by Robert Benton, starring Loren Dean as the titular character and Dustin Hoffman as gangster Dutch Schultz. The film co-stars Nicole Kidman, Steven Hill, Steve Buscemi, and Bruce Willis. It is based on the novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow. The screenplay is by Tom Stoppard. Doctorow distanced himself from the film for the extensive manner in which it deviated from the book in style and content. Billy Behan is a poor 15-year-old kid in the 1930s Bronx. After the wealthy gangster Dutch Schultz takes him under his wing, Billy adopts the name of a neighborhood street and begins to work for the organization. Billy is taught the ropes by Dutch's business associate Otto Berman and given menial chores. Dutch, meanwhile, is busy trying to beat a rap in court and also determine whether his partner Bo Weinberg has been betraying him. Even though he likes Bo, it is Billy who eventually helps prove that Bo lied about his whereabouts. Dutch and his thugs take Bo captive and prepare to send him to a watery grave. Dutch proceeds to claim the attentions of beautiful Drew Preston, a married young socialite Bo has been seeing who clearly LESS